Twitter And Netflix professionals again BLM’s DeRay Mckesson In Mayoral Run

Executives from major technology companies including Twitter, Netflix, Slack, and YouTube have donated to the Baltimore mayoral campaign of Black Lives matter activist DeRay Mckesson, Re/code experiences. Mckesson came to prominence for his role each offline and online within the Black Lives matter motion that started out as a social media campaign on Twitter last 12 months.

The information of the political donations come from Mckesson’s campaign finance disclosure filed nowadays. A search of the disclosure unearths the names of tech pros who’ve donated to Mckesson’s marketing campaign. these pros embrace Twitter’s government chairman, Omid Kordestani, Crowdpac cofounder Gisel Kordestani, Slack founder Stewart Butterfield, and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, each and every of whom donated $6,000. YouTube exec Malik Ducard additionally gave $2,500.

As Re/code notes, Mckesson has prior to now met with executives at tech firms including Twitter and Google, and he’ll also be showing alongside Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at this 12 months’s Code convention. in addition to his involvement with Black Lives topic, Mckesson can also be heavily concerned in the education reform movement. Mckesson is running as a Democrat towards more than a dozen others within the party main.